DESIREE KAHIKOPO-MEIFFRET (Namibia)

Began in the film industry as an actress in 2008. In 2014 she writes, directs and produces the play A Lifetime of Blues, which wins the Best Set Design Award at the Namibian Film and Theatre Awards that same year.

In 2017 she worked as production manager on Namibian director Vickson Hangula’s film Fish Out of Water. The White Line, released in 2019, is her first film as a director. A romantic historical drama, set in 1963 in South West Africa (now Namibia), during the height of the apartheid regime.

Shot with a small crew of 28 people, in three cities, it premiered in 2019 at the Durban International Film Festival and has won, among others, the Best Screenplay Award, Best Direction and the Audience Award at the Namibia Film and Theatre Awards 2019. To which must be added a special mention at the Luxor African Film Festival in 2020.

Kahikopo is currently preparing his next feature film, a psychological drama entitled A Whisper in the Wind, about a woman who lives marked by the trauma of sexual abuse experienced in childhood. She is also working on two other projects, the comedy-drama Rose on Concrete and The Warrior Princess, written by Tokoloho Masemene.